Smit Patel

Software Engineer

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India13 yrs 1 mo experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 12 years in finance and technology.
Expert in building scalable financial platforms.
Strong leadership in engineering team mentoring.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on back-end development and risk management.

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Skills

Core Skills

FlaskRest ApisHtml5Back-end Web DevelopmentShell ScriptingObject-oriented Programming (oop)

Other Skills

Microsoft Visual Studio CodeRepresentational State Transfer (REST)Code ReviewComputer ScienceAuthenticationComputer EngineeringWeb ApplicationsPycharmInvestment BankingHTMLJavaScriptC++QtLinuxBazaar

About

With over 12 years of experience at the intersection of finance and technology, I specialize in building high-performance, scalable platforms for complex financial ecosystems. My career has been defined by a deep commitment to the investment banking domain, where I thrive on solving the unique technical challenges posed by global trade risk and derivatives processing.Currently, as an AVP & Senior Engineer at Bank of America, I lead the development of critical reporting and analytics tools for the Commodities desk. My work focuses on streamlining front-office operations and ensuring robust data integrity in highly regulated environments.Core Expertise:Financial Domains: OTC Derivatives, Traded Products, Commodities (Precious & Base Metals, Gas & Power), and Trade Risk Analytics.Technical Stack: Advanced Python (Django, Flask, Tornado), ReactJS, and full-stack architecture.Leadership: Mentoring high-performing engineering teams and leading large-scale system migrations in Agile environments.I am passionate about the stability and intricate logic of banking technology. I believe that while AI continues to reshape the industry, the need for deep domain expertise and reliable, audited systems has never been greater.Let’s connect to discuss Fintech innovation, scalable system design, or the future of IB technology.

Experience

13 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

7 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Bank of america

5 roles

Senior Engineer

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Software Engineer III

Mar 2022 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Microsoft Visual Studio CodeFlaskREST APIsObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Representational State Transfer (REST)Code Review+4

Software Engineer II A

Nov 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

Microsoft Visual Studio CodeFlaskHTML5REST APIsObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Web Applications+6

Software Engineer II B

Aug 2018 – Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Microsoft Visual Studio CodeHTML5Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)Web ApplicationsRepresentational State Transfer (REST)Code Review+4

Sr Software Engineer

Oct 2015 – Sep 2016 · 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Worked on key projects in Risk Management domain.
Urge to know more and deliver with ownership bagged me a key project within a month of start.
Quick flow pick-up made difference in providing easier development support in various applications.
Took end-to-end ownership of all the projects and deliverable items were taken to timely closure.
Technical and problem solving skill were appreciated by the stakeholder.
Proactively tried to learn the business side of things and shared with peers and colleagues.

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)Computer ScienceComputer Engineering

Spectral insights

Senior Engineer

Sep 2016 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Microsoft Visual Studio CodeShell ScriptingHTML5REST APIsObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Web Applications+4

Imec

Software Engineer, R&D

May 2015 – Sep 2015 · 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Responsible for building a front-end to an Innovative research platform in imaging and pathology.
Developing a UI and integrating it to back-end framework.
Integrate the full platform with the hardware and build on user friendliness.
Also responsible for research on how to make the platform most usable and future scaling options possibly moving it to cloud.
Major technologies used were python3, PyQt5, matplotlib, sqlite, svn

Shell ScriptingObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Computer ScienceComputer Engineering

Tvarit circuitexplore

Software Engineer

Jan 2013 – May 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Vadodara Area, India

A stealth mode, start-up working on: “A Python Based Software Platform for Electronic Design Automation.”
The small team of three, was responsible for building the complete software from scratch including the back-ends and graphical analysis tool to process the results.
Partly responsible for development of several modules that required complicated parsing and generation of known file types viz. XML, CSV and a few customized file types.
Solely responsible for implementing a step by step GUI wizard for setting up of a problem/project that is also capable of a simultaneous CLI that can auto-update the GUI.
Written interfaces for several open source computing platforms to make them compatible with Tvarit software
To maintain the quality, sanity and consistency of the code the team also developed a module that automated the process of unit-testing and checking of coverages (internally done by “Coverage – by Ned Batchelder”).
Refining and adding small modules to CLI to cut down the processing time taken for different features of GUI analysis and command line processing.
Adding separate modules to the software on customer based requirements and feedback and rolling them out only after writing basic testing modules.
Worked on major R&D in PyQt for a GUI module to be made as an extension to the existing platform.
I am also responsible for writing the shell(bash) scripts to install the required back-ends.
The major tools/technologies used were: python2, python3, PyQt4, Qt, bzr(bazaar) matplotlib and eclipse.